President and CEO of IGEL North America, Jed Ayres is responsible for leading the IGEL marketing and sales teams in building stronger relationships within the North American IT channel, and developing new tools and resources to help drive the success of mutual customers. He also oversees IGEL’s global marketing programs, and holds a seat as Managing Director on the IGEL Technology Group Board of Directors. Ayres joined IGEL Technology from AppSense, which was acquired by LANDESK in March 2016. During his tenure at AppSense, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, leading the company in dramatically increasing awareness and driving revenue growth through the transformation of AppSense’s digital marketing, social media, public relations and analyst relations programs. During his tenure there, he also drove efforts to unify the global partner program and increased the company’s investment in marketing programs for its top channel partners, which led to a double-digit increase in sales. Prior to AppSense, Ayres spent more than 20 years in senior leadership roles in both publicly and privately held high growth IT solution providers operating within the $50M to $10B+ revenue range, including MCPc, MTM Technologies and GE Capital IT Solutions. Ayres holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Sonoma State University and an MBA from San Francisco State University. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

About a year and a half ago I joined IGEL, a company few people had ever heard of… and if you had heard of IGEL you were probably German and knew them as a niche endpoint hardware manufacturer. Endpoints? Why should you care? Boring dumb terminals, commodity hardware right? VDI a slow growth market…no innovation…moving on to more exciting things… big data, AI, mobility, cloud, security and IoT.

Well fast forward 18 months and IGEL is leading and reenergizing the VDI and End User Computing market with our software-defined approach to delivering the most secure and manageable endpoints in the industry. VDI and End User Computing are hot again as organizations migrate to Windows 10 and are looking for secure ways to manage endpoint point, mitigate the threats of ransomware, malware and keep up with the ever expanding world of data protection and compliance. They’re also looking at innovative ways to securely deliver applications, data and desktops from the cloud from AWS and Microsoft to any device.

IGEL is giving organizations ways to do all of this on existing x86 hardware, potentially saving millions of dollars and the planet too. Imagine one person managing tens of thousands of devices through a single intuitive management tool. The most exciting thing about IGEL is the ecosystem that we work with… rich out of the box integrations with Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, Imprivata, Lakeside, Samsung, Parallels, and many more. Management and seamless integrations that just work and make life for IT administrators so much easier.

And guess what…all of this innovation and technology is going to be on full display in Q1 2018 in three continents in three cities, Bremen, Germany, Austin, USA and Melbourne Australia. In addition to our ecosystem partners, we will be joined by real customers using IGEL, the best EUC solution providers on the plant as well as industry experts from 451 Group, Gartner, and IoT Advisory Group. Of course we also have top speakers from VMware like Sumit Dhawan and Citrix like Tim Minahan among other rock stars.

And if you’re looking to get IGEL trained and certified, we will have a Technical Boot Camp allowing you to go hands on with the most innovative solutions on the market like UD Pocket, IGEL Cloud Gateway and our Universal Management Suite. Heck after one day of intensive training you’ll become an IGEL Certified Engineer (ICE).

Please join us for this amazing event..register at www.disrupteuc.com. Space is limited so sign up today.